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This version is released under the Apache License Version 2.0.
 
Version 2.23 includes several new features and bug fixes.

Additions include:

• Implementation of XOAUTH2 authentication support for Outlook. Based on documentation suggested by Andrew C Aitchison.
• Add support for the OAUTHBEARER authentication method in Gmail. Thanks to Alexander Perlis for suggesting it and explaining how the method works.
• Creation of Alpine's Privacy Policy. This is presented as a link to an online document from the Release Notes (Link at the top of this document.) Upon user request, Alpine downloads and displays this document. Links to the privacy policy are also displayed when a user starts Alpine for the first time, or when a user starts a new version of Alpine. There is no default exit greeting command for these screens, and to exit the user must press "E", instead of the old default, which was the RETURN command. The RETURN command will open the handle on which the cursor is on, which by default is the Privacy Policy.
• Support for the SASL-IR IMAP extension that avoids a round trip during authentication. Similar support added for the SMTP, NNTP and POP3 protocols. Thanks to Geoffrey Bodwin for a report that lead to this implementation.
• Alpine can pass an HTML message to an external web browser, by using the "External" command in the ATTACHMENT INDEX screen.
• New configuration variable external-command-loads-inline-images-oly that controls if Alpine will keep the source link to all the images in the HTML message, or will only pass a link to inline images included in the message. For your privacy and security this feature is enabled by default.
• When reading an email and a user selects an email address to which to compose a message from the message, the user will be able to select a role to compose that message.
• New variable system-certs-path that allows users to indicate the location of the directory where certificates are located. In PC-Alpine this must be C:\libressl\ssl\certs. The C: drive can be replaced by the name of the drive where the binary and DLL files are located.
• New variable system-certs-file that allows users to configure the location of a container of certificate authority (CA) certificates to be used to validate certificates of remote servers.
• Remove sleep of 5 seconds for mailcap programs that use the terminal to display content. Suggested by Carl Edquist. In addition, remove configurable process table command and its corresponding sleep time.

Bugs that have been addressed include:

• Security Bug: Alpine can be configured to start a secure connection using /tls on an insecure connection. However, if the connection is PREAUTH, Alpine will not upgrade the connection to a secure connection, because a client must not issue a STARTTLS to a server that supports it in authenticated state. This makes Alpine continue to use an insecure connection with the server, exposing user data. Reported by Damian Poddebniak and Fabian Ising from Münster University of Applied Sciences.
• Selecting by subject might not copy the subject of the current message to the selection text correctly. Reported by Iosif Fettich.
• Alpine does not set the return path correctly when using a role while bouncing a message. Reported by Dr. C. Griewatsch.
• Bug in PC-Alpine that made Alpine go into an infinite loop and consume CPU when it was iconized. Reported by Holger Schieferdecker in comp.mail.pine.
• Crash in Alpine when attempting to reply to a multipart/alternative message that is malformed, and the option to include attachments in reply is enabled. Reported and patched by Peter Tirsek.
• Bug that makes Alpine split encoded words in the subject of a message in the middle of a utf-8 character into two encoded words, breaking the encoding. Reported by Jean Chevalier.
• Alpine would not redraw the screen when a check for new mail in an incoming folder failed due to a failurec while validating the server certificate, and the user did not allow the connection to proceed.
• Crash in Alpine while resizing the screen when using any of the tokens SUBJKEYTEXT, SUBJECTTEXT, or SUBJKEYINITTEXT in the index format, and the screen was resized. Reported by Iggy Mogo.
• When Alpine is trying to authenticate to Gmail, using the XOAUTH2 method, it does not display the url the user needs to open, in order to authorize Alpine to access Gmail using XOAUTH2 when Alpine still has not created a screen. Reported by Baron Fujimoto.
• When an html anchor does not quote the link in the href parameter, alpine does not link to it.
• Attempt to fix a bug that breaks scrolling of a message in Alpine when the screen is resized. Reported in the Debian bug system at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgie?bug=956361.

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